Three Friends

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Shinigami rolled her eyes at Kelandrial, who was holding her bow up, making some fancy shot. Twack. It hit its mark.

"Aha!" Kel said, jumping for joy. "Beat that Ami!"

Shinigami (otherwize known as Ami) walked up. She didn't even look at the target, and shot with her long bow. Twack. She took a look; dead center.

"Aha," Ami said mockingly, smirking. "I beat you."

"Doesn't make you any better of a hunter," Kel said, pouting slightly.

"I know," Ami shrugged.

"Ami!! Kel!!" Ami rolled her eyes again, and ducked down, covering her neck. She felt hands breifly on her back, as someone volted over her.

She looked back up to see Akyn and Kel hugging and laughing.

"Get a room," she muttered. Akyn smiled sheepishly, and she pushed him.

"Hey!" Kel glared at Ami, who smiled innocently. "Don't do that!"

"Ladies, ladies," Akyn said, dragging a hand threw his hair. "No need to-"

"In your dreams," both Ami and Kel said before he could finish. Ami walked the length of the target, and retrieved her and Kel's arrows. Then she returned, and smiled at her two friends.

Kel had long, dirty blond hair that was cropped short at her shoulders, with demonishly cut bangs, stunning turqoise eyes, and a small stature for her age. She was wearing black trousers, a light grey shirt, and a sword at her belt.

Akyn was a bit taller then Ami, with light brown hair and cheery brown eyes. He had baggy black trousers, a black shirt, but didn't have any of his weapons on him at the moment.

Ami herself was in the middle, with long, chestnut hair that got slightly lighter at the tips, and demonishly cut bangs as well. Her eyes were half green half grey each, melting into each other slightly. She wore black trousers as well, with a light blue shirt, and a quiver of arrows on her back.

Ami wasn't considered a young beauty like Kel, but a distant stranger, for she was native in the dark tongue. Truth be told, she just showed up one day with her brother, and aunt recognised her. Her talents were under her control, though they were few, and any others that she had, she never let anyone else see.

All three of them were 10. Ami's little brother was 8, and Kel had a twin brother. Akyn also had a brother that was rarely seen.

"I'll see you guys later, alright?" Ami said, smiling at them. "I've got to get going."

"Correction," Akyn said importantly. "*I'LL* see you later tonight, Kel will see you tomorrow."

"I don't plan on going to the party thank you very much," Ami rolled her eyes again. "It'll be childish."

"But your a child," Kel reminded her, pouting.

"In body," Ami agreed. "But I'm much older then either of you in spirit."

Kel and Akyn looked at her for a moment, and then started laughing their heads off. Ami just smiled, and walked away.

She walked to her tree house home, and climbed up the rope ladder.

"Shinigami where have you been?" her Aunt Taryn said, looking at her sharply from across the room. "Let me guess; out playing with your silly bow again? When will you learn to put that down and be a proper young lady!"

'Wann werden Sie lernen, daß ich wie meine Mutter nicht sein werde?(1)' Ami thought, as she put down her bow, and walked quietly over to her aunt.

"Do the wash up," her aunt snapped. "And then I want you to go and collect some herbs. Your brother is trying to catch something to eat right now."

"Your kidding, right?" Ami blurted out. Her aunt only glared at her, and Ami bit her tongue. She went and did the wash obediently.

Once she was done, she sat down on the floor, and looked up at her aunt. Her aunt finished doing some chore, and then turned her attention to her.

"I already you told what to do," she said simply. "Why can't you be more like Kel? She would've had it all done ages ago." Her aunt turned back to her work, and Ami stood up. She went over to the porch, and jumped down onto a pile of hay.

'Kel dies! Kel das!(2)' the thought irritably in the dark tongue. 'Nur, weil sie 'wahre Schönheit' hat, und ich wurde mit der dunklen Zunge erhoben, bin ich minderwertig! Manchmal hasse ich dieses Leben..(3)'

Ami sighed. Truelly it was unfair that she was always compaired to Kel, but even so, the two were best of friends. People just expected Kel to rub off on Ami, and Ami to become the perfect little girl that Kel was.

"Wie, daß je geschehen wird..(4)" Ami snorted. She looked this way and that as she walked into the forest. The forest had been her home for many a year...

She had confided in the trees for shelter and to hold deep, dark secrets which no one else would ever know. Though she could not climb them with as much grace and ease as Kel could, she would survive for longer within the darkest forests in the world...

Then again, Kel was the superior hunter of the two of them, so it would be fairly close, if not a dead tie.

Ami looked around, and soon enough, found some herbs. She collected them, along with some berries and other things, and then went to find Danflit.

Danflit was in a meadow. When Ami got there, he had succeeded in catching one, not-scrawny-but-not-fat rabbit.

"Kommen Sie Danflit(5)," Ami said. Danflit jumped, and turned to look at his sister with a confused expression; Ami realised her mistake. "Come on Danflit, time to go home."

"Alright Ami," Danflit nodded, and walked up to his sister. Ami hugged him to her side, and ruffled his hair. "Don't do that!"

"Awe..." Ami smirked. "But you look so cute with your hair all messed up!"

"Do not," Danflit pouted. Ami laughed a little, and punched her brother lightly in the arm. He punched her back.

This continued until they got back home. Then Ami let Danflit climb up.

She was about to climb up to, when she heard a neigh coming from her pony. Her pony stomped it's feet, and made a rucus.

Ami quickly went to see what was wrong, when she saw the most adorably white puppy curled in the corner of her pony's stable.

"Haben dies, was Sie hat, erschrocken ist?(6)" Ami asked her pony, laughing slightly. She picked up the young puppy, and craddled him in her arms. "Ehrfurcht... dort, dort..., wo Sie Mutter ist? Huh kleiner Bursche?(7)"

"Shinigami!!" Ami winched slightly, and put the little pup back into the hay.

"He's harmless, alright?" She told her pony, who calmed down; she turned back to the puppy. "Kept quiet, and I'll be back a little later with something for you, okay?"

The puppy gave a little yap, and nestled into the hay. Ami smiled, and left, going up the rope ladder at last.

Her aunt was glaring at her when she reached the flat.

"Yes?" she asked innocently.

"Get washed and then get dressed," her aunt snapped at her.

"Why?" Ami asked curiously, and trying to make her aunt snap more; maybe she would get to stay at home.

"We're leaving for the party," her aunt explained as calmly as she could. Ami blinked a few times.

"I'm not going," Ami said plainly. "Have a nice time though."

She walked past her aunt, who glared at her back, and left with Danflit.

~*~Translations~*~

(1)When will you learn that I'm not going to be like my mother?

(2)Kel this! Kel that!

(3)Just because she has 'true beauty' and I was raised with the dark tongue, I'm inferior! Sometimes I hate this life...

(4)Like that'll ever happen...

(5)Come Danflit

(6)Is this what has you scared?

(7)Awe... there, there... where's you mother? Huh little guy?